Word: cardiovascular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...
...strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...most laymen, mention of anything seriously wrong with the circulation of the blood suggests trouble in the heart or the arteries leading to the brain; rarely do they consider the kidneys. But more than half of all U.S. deaths are classed technically as due to "cardiovascular-renal" diseases, and last week the American Heart Association marked its annual fund drive with new emphasis on the renal (kidney) part of the triad. Most notable exhibits: "artificial kidneys," which are now saving lives at a growing number of U.S. medical centers...
...Cardiovascular. The blood pressure was 118/80. Since recovery from infarction, it has averaged 120/80. It has seldom reached higher levels, and occasionally has been lower. The heart sounds were good. The pulse was 70 per minute. The myocardial infarction of September 1955 was well healed. The electrocardiogram showed residual changes consistent with healed infarction. There were no symptoms or findings of myocardial insufficiency (muscle weakness) or coronary insufficiency (angina). The arteries of the extremities showed no evidence of sclerosis. The circulatory tone was good. The President has shown good tolerance to increasing physical activity over the past six months...
...health he had got from his doctors. The day before the President started his Georgia vacation a panel of six doctors gave a press conference a full report on his latest physical examination. Presidential Physician Major General Howard Snyder led off with a flood of technical talk: "This cardiovascular examination revealed no physical abnormalities other than those associated with the scar in the heart muscle," said he. The two-centimeter (about ¾-in.) scar was "well-healed," blood pressure has been stable, circulation excellent, and the President has suffered neither shortness of breath nor anginal pains...